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Media Hub is a UNC-Chapel Hill Media and Journalism School course designed for students to produce professional, comprehensive and multi-platform news stories with interest for North Carolina audiences. Media Hub’s content has been picked up by news organizations throughout North Carolina since 2013.

10/15/2026

In the western part of the state, thousands of folks flooded the streets of Marion, North Carolina on Aug. 20, 2026, to celebrate the annual Bigfoot Festival. Festivities included a 5k through downtown Marion, food trucks, local artists and vendors, live music, face painting and Sasquatch souvenirs at every turn.

✍🏼 by Mercer Meadows.
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10/13/2026

When UNC Chapel Hill's 2026 season kicked off in Dublin, Ireland for the annual Aer Lingus College Football Classic, bringing beloved mascot Rameses was quickly determined to be more trouble than it was worth.

Enter Seamus: Rameses’s Irish “cousin.”

✍🏼 by Daneen Khan.
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10/08/2026

Today, many continue to hold conversations about when Flock cameras pose a threat. In July, the North Carolina State Budget authorized the use of automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, across all state-maintained roadways. Many towns and universities have also bought into the technology, with UNC-Chapel Hill entering a contract with Flock Safety in February 2024 for the implementation of 23 cameras across campus.

✍🏼 by Gabe Thumm.
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10/06/2026

As $20,000 dorm rooms make headlines and dorm designing emerges as a new career path, the trend has yet to make as big, or costly, of an impact in North Carolina. At least for now.

✍🏼 by Tess Alongi.
📸 Photos by McKenzie Acton.
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10/02/2026

Astronaut training and chocolate chip cookies went hand in hand at the Morehead Planetarium from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s. The biggest names in spaceflight needed fuel for the hours of celestial navigation training they would go through in the 68-foot dome.

✍🏼 by Emmy Benton.
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09/30/2026

For the past ten years, Angela Georgallis has watched both her children and her mother get older. In between work calls, doctors’ appointments and school pickups, she has cared for two generations at once. She’s a member of the “Sandwich Generation.”

✍🏼 by Maria Sullivan.
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09/26/2026

Despite wide access to recycling services across the state, there’s still wide skepticism over whether what makes it into the bin actually gets recycled. But recycling is a business, at the end of the day, one that doesn’t want anything that could be sold to go to waste and one with a massive economic impact.

🎥 by Kathryn DeHart.

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09/24/2026

Bryce Brooks has spent most of her professional life asking other people for their trash. She’s managed waste for Durham Central Park for more than a decade, and in that time founded two different organizations that aim to ease some of the stressors in the recycling process.

✍🏼 by Connor Foote.

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04/26/2024

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✍🏼 by Hannah Rosenberger
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04/24/2024

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✍🏼 by Noah Monroe
📸 by Joshua Dolgoff

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